Check maybe, but not mate.
So I went to GOPAC's site to find this "memo" but I couldn't so I researched the memo and found that it was written in 1990 and was actually a pamphlet for training.I found an interesting statement which I have included below.
Reason magazine feb, 1999 by John Pitney jr.
After Democrats attacked the guide as cynical and demeaning, Gingrich quickly disowned it as an aide's mistake. But in spite of their public indignation, the Democrats adopted its central idea: that language is indeed a mechanism for shaping the way people think about politics. Sometimes they openly acknowledged their intellectual debt to Gingrich. At a 1995 political retreat, Democratic senators and staff received an information packet that included the GOPAC document.
Now that is what I call ironic !
Furthermore, I did find the text of the training pamphlet which has been referred to as a memo. It is here:
http://web.utk.edu/~glenn/GopacMemo.html
As you can see, some of what was posted was from the memo but the "AS IT HAS BEEN UPDATED RECENTLY..parts 2,3, and 4... you wont believe it...." part does not exist. I submit that this was added later (16 YEARS later) by the Left Wing blogger Doc Boon. Your defense to that is " it was secret so of course you won't find it" This is not a valid arguement. You could make up a memo saying anything you want and then say you hacked into wherever to get it. This alone would be enough for me to throw a flag but there is better evidence in the "memo" itself.Here are some parts that NO activist or policymaker would ever write unless he was a total fool:
The Rhetoric of the Right – Lessons in Rhetorical Hocus Pocus
Don’t worry, you won’t be required to learn any multisyllabic like multisyllabic
Keep in mind that right-talking people do not have to justify their positions, so it does not matter how many positions there actually are or if the right side is even in the same category as the other side. State everything as either/or eliminates the need for proof.
so you don’t have to worry about civil rights or protections granted under the constitution or any of those messy notions about fair treatment under the law.
Clever, huh?
Remember, most people can’t define “irony” anyway, so when you talk right, you can ignore inconvenient ironies
in case you haven’t gotten around to reading your Bible yet
If you are able to slander the other team, then your team is automatically elevated to the winning position.
The above statements are ridiculous enough but #4 is the most ludicrous!
MPORTANT POINT 4: Don’t let facts get in your way. Most people don’t know the facts anyway, and very few people will actually take the time to look the facts up. Those that do can be dismissed as Godless liberals.
For example:
Fact: Bush and his administration inherited a 900 billion dollar surplus when they took office in 2000. As of February 2005, there was a 427 billion dollar deficit.
Right-talking: The administration’s hard work is helping to reduce the deficit.
Note: The fact that the deficit was created while the Bush administration was in power can be safely ignored.
Fact: The national debt when Bush and his administration took office in 2000 was $5,674,178,209,886 and declining. As of March 13, 2005 it was $7,758,005,018,719 (a 36.7% increase) and increasing.
Right-talking: The administration’s hard work is helping to curtail the rising debt.
Note: The fact that the debt is a direct byproduct of the Administration’s policies can be safely ignored. When in doubt, you can also blame the terrorists, and whenever possible, mention 9/11 (hardly anyone remembers that it was primarily Saudis that attacked us anyway).
Other Facts You Can Safely Ignore:
Fact: The poverty rate in America was 11.8% in 2000 and increased every year that the Bush administration has been in office, rising to 12.5% in 2003.
Fact: Unemployment rose from 4% when the Bush administration took office to 5.4% by February 2005.
Fact: The price of oil was $35 when the Bush administration took office, by August 2005 it had risen to $66 dollars a barrel.
Fact: The trade deficit when the Bush administration took office in 2000 was $370 billion; by 2004 the deficit was over $672 billion and rising.
Fact: Prior to the Bush administration’s plan to invade Iraq, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Iraq had been directly responsible for the deaths of no Americans, no Iraqis were involved in 9/11 (or any other attack on America) and Iraq had no strategic relationship with al Quaeda.
Fact: Since the Bush administration started putting an end to terrorism, terrorist attacks in the world have increased from 175 in 2003 to 655 in 2004 (and rising).
All of these facts can (and should) be avoided if you are to begin talking right. If someone brings them up, call them un-American, claim they are ignoring all the positive accomplishments of the Bush administration (don’t worry, you won’t be asked for any facts), claim they are pandering to the liberal agenda and/or giving comfort to the terrorists.
No republican operative would state the above "facts" EVER! This was obviously propoganda created by leftists to get the democrat peasants all worked up and hating consevatives. This is a well known leftist tactic to villify the opposition so you can hate them and still be a good person. In fact, that is the driving principle of democrat politics today. Apparently, it works! In order to believe this "memo" you would have to think republicans are the biggest fools ever, but if they are fools,then how can they be smart enough to get away with all the sneaky things you claim they do?
In closing, here is my logic-driven analysis on the memo.
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